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Setting up the GermaNet 9.0 PostgreSQL Database
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1. Requirements:

- Install PostgreSQL 8.4 or later: http://www.postgresql.org/download/


2. Installation (under Linux/MacOS):

- Open a shell (command line) window

- Before we import the data from the dump file, we must first create the database
  into which the data will be imported. This can be done by executing the command:
    createdb germanet90

- To initiate the import process, run the command:
    psql germanet90 -f GN_V90_database_dump.dump

- To create statistics that optimize the operation of the database, it is
  recommended (but not required) to run the command:
    vacuumdb -z germanet90

- As part of the import process a system user called 'germanet' is created, with
  its password also set to 'germanet' (lower-case). With this user it is possible
  to execute commands on the database tables. For example:
    psql germanet90 -h localhost -U germanet -c "SELECT * FROM lex_unit_table;"
  (Note that this user is not essential to the correct functionality of the system,
  however it is set as the owner of the tables in the germanet90 database.)

- For general information about PostgreSQL 8.4 please refer to:
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/index.html

- For information about the GermaNet database format, please refer to the following
  paper:
    Verena Henrich and Erhard Hinrichs: GernEdiT - The GermaNet Editing Tool.
    In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on International Language Resources
    and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Valletta, Malta, pp. 2228-2235.
  or website: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/database.shtml